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The warning from the Public Transport Authority comes after a Mercedes-Benz bus caught fire and was badly damaged as it was about to be refuelled at the Welshpool depot on Sunday night... The bus is one of more than 500 in the Transperth fleet fuelled by compressed natural gas.
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano spews ash, gas
Columns of gas and ash 3 kilometers high were detected after two strong explosions from the Popocatepetl volcano, Mexico's Cenapred disaster-management agency said Friday.
Mexico Violence Claims Hundreds of US Lives
When Malcolm X's grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years.
Mexico judge orders prison for suspects in killing
A judge on Saturday issued an order for the imprisonment of two waiters accused in the beating death of Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of civil rights activist Malcolm X, the Mexico City attorney general's office said.
Plata's Mexican food a Barstow staple
BARSTOW Plata's Mexican food is as connected to the history of Barstow as the BNSF Railroad and Marine Corps Logistics Base, said Armando Gonzalez.
Photos/Weights: Edgar Sosa vs. Giovani Segura
The weights are in for tomorrow's big flyweight fight at Plaza de Toros 'Eloy Cavazos' de Zitacuaro, Michoacan, Mexico and promoted by Zanfer Promociones and HG Boxing.
Colombia: Is FARC making room for drug cartels?
More repression against terrorist and illegal armed groups could be behind the strengthening of the presence of Mexican drug cartels in the country.
4 Public Works of Art Gone Terribly Wrong
During the Great Depression, Mexican artist Diego Rivera was on a roll. In 1931, he painted a massive mural for San Francisco's Pacific Stock Exchange.
South Texas man survives more than 200 bee stings
An elderly South Texas man has survived more than 200 bee stings when he was swarmed while mowing some grass.
Mexico's Pena Nieto, seeking wide reforms, wants to limit power of governors
Barely a quarter-century ago, Mexico's all-powerful presidents could run any of the nation's 31 governors out of office at will.
Malcolm X's grandson killed in Mexico
His troubles began in 1997, when at age 12 he plead guilty to setting fire to the apartment of his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, that resulted in her death in New York.
In Mexico, fears for democracy as threatened journalists curtail coverage
Quitze Fernandez, a columnist for the El Guardian newspaper in this capital of Coahuila state abutting Texas, picked up the phone in his newsroom one day.
Mexico has new plan to tackle drug violence
A Mexican general took over all police and military operations in a chaotic western state on Thursday in a test run of President Enrique Pena Nieto's new security strategy to tame raging drug violence.
The Ethics of Extreme Porn: Is Some Sex Wrong Even Among Consenting Adults?
In " What Do You Desire ?" Emily Witt travels to San Francisco, attends a shoot for a pornographic video about "women bound, stripped, and punished in public," reflects on her own unsuccessful search for romantic love, and ponders the implications of a sexual culture where no desire is considered off-limits so long as all participants give their ... (more)
New City Express van available in fall 2014
In a new collaboration with General Motors, Nissan will produce a version of its NV200 small commercial van that GM will sell as the Chevrolet City Express in the United States and Canada, the two automakers said this week.
Few convictions for Mexicos special prosecutor for crimes against journalists
The adjectives pile up as top editors, writers and free press advocates level their aim at the division of the Attorney General’s Office in Mexico responsible for prosecuting crimes against journalists.
Scandals: Mexican Official Fired After Daughter Had a Restaurant Closed by Health Dept.
A senior government official in Mexico was fired after his daughter abused his position to have a Mexico City restaurant shut down by health inspectors when she was denied a table.
Murder of Mexican reporter in Veracruz spotlights official hostility toward press
Regina Martinez had a premonition that she was courting danger in the months before her death.
Tale of Mexican drug violence rattles Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival has had its first shock to the system, in the shape of Mexican director Amat Escalante's unsparingly violent drug war drama "Heli." The story of the devastation wreaked by narco-violence on an ordinary Mexican family, the movie paints such a bleak picture that one journalist told its director Thursday that she had cancelled ... (more)
Bracing for an eruption in Mexico
After an eruption overnight, residents in a town some 50 miles -- or 80 kilometers -- outside Mexico City brace for a major eruption.